On November 11th, 1874, four friends came together in a time when higher education for women was not encouraged. Together, they formed a women’s society, later to become the first of its kind to be called a “Sorority.” They bonded together to face adversity and to encourage one another’s intellectual growth. Now, nearly 140 years later, we celebrate the vision and dedication of those women — and those who have come since then — who have built Gamma Phi Beta Sorority into one of the largest and most well respected sororities in the world. 

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     We still cherish the same ideals that our founders worked to achieve: personal worth, service to humanity, intellectual growth, and lifelong commitment. These ideals have become our Sorority's four core values of love, labor, learning, and loyalty. Today, Gamma Phi Beta is an international sorority that has welcomed over 150 collegiate chapters into sisterhood and almost 300 alumnae chapters in the United States and Canada. Our organization has nearly 200,000 collegiate members worldwide, and is still growing. As members, we take pride in our organization's rich history and tradition, and hope to share it with many more young women throughout our years.

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     Gamma Phi Beta seeks to provide its members with an environment that can nurture all of it's members while working towards our organization's mission; To inspire the highest type of Womanhood. We constantly encourage our members to set high standards for themselves personally, inlectually, physically, and spiritually, while providing a sisterhood to help them along the way.

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     We honor these women, our founders, by upholding their vision of “inspiring the highest type of womanhood” in our daily lives and actions.

     Along with our founders, Helen M. Dodge, Frances E. Haven, E. Adeline Curtis, and Mary A. Bingham, Gamma Phi Beta is proud to call many accomplished women our sisters. Some you may recognize include: Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth; Academy Award winning actress Cloris Leachman; “Chelsea Lately” comedienne Heather McDonald; Broadway actress Bailey Hanks, currently playing Elle Woods in “Legally Blonde: the Musical”; Bachelor wedding planner Mindy Hersh Weiss; and Alabama State Supreme Court Justice Lyn Stuart.